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- There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do. — Mary Szybist
- Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth. — Halldór Laxness
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson
- Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation… — Seamus Heaney
- Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the… — Jacques Maritain
- Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt
- The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which… — Samuel Johnson
- In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. — Seamus Heaney